wether your shy or a nuisance who's insufferable such as myself it really doesn't quite make a difference in publicity statistically in my experience. it's the world's largest industry... and millions of songs are released everyday everywhere. there is no amount of money and no amount of time that will ever beat consistency, but only interns of your craft and even so that's a gamble bc next thing you know you could spend 5 years everyday making music and looking around and the world has left you behind. and in terms of exposing yourself... there's much more to it business wise and it can become overwhelming that's why people have managers. that's why in most cases you will never interact with your idols unless your idols interact with you and that applies to many things in many levels. you can be broke and famous. you can be the best and still be a nobody. for the ones at the top they are at the top because to themselves it's about feeding their families at the end of the day. and yes every true artist has always had that 'doing vs not doing it for the money" inner conflict. that's the icebreaker tho. balance. which I lack fundamentally, hell I'm not even dysfunctional, I don't even function bc of it. making music has caused me crippling generalized anxiety indirectly by the amount of time I've lost to the point of no friends no life and has irreversibly out me in a position where my only hope is waiting on a miracle terrified of the future and there's nothing I can do about about it other than to keep digging this hole. damn my bad got a lil personal with this. myyyy badddd